We back founders using technology to solve the world's biggest problems.

Fifty Years is an entrepreneur-run early stage venture fund based in San Francisco. We invest in companies that inspire. Specifically, we fund companies that, if successful, will be both massively profitable and make a serious dent in achieving one of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Some of the teams we've backed:

Small, low-cost telecommunications satellites to bring the internet to the entire world.

So they decided to create Fifty Years to support entrepreneurs solving the world’s biggest problems with technology. But they didn’t want to turn into something like a charity or traditional ‘impact’ investor. They still wanted to back companies that could be both massively profitable and make a serious dent in solving big problems like climate change, education, and health.

— Mike Butcher, Fifty Years - The new Silicon Valley VC that wants to save the world AND make money, TechCrunch

Like any venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, Fifty Years backs startups that it thinks will make massive amounts of money. But the firm, recently launched by two Y Combinator alumni, has a second requirement: Each of the entrepreneurs in its portfolio also has to have the potential to solve a major world problem.

— Adele Peters, This New Silicon Valley VC Firm Wants To Fund Solutions To The World's Biggest Problems, Fast Company

Watch Fifty Years closely, they might just be the soul Silicon Valley needs right now.

— Paul Armstrong, Katapult Is The Festival You Need For A Future That Isn't Discreet, Forbes